Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Cool piece —> the 2000 election largely set the table for modern political geography, with non-college whites for the first time voting to the right of college-educated whites. — PolitiTweet.org

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@awprokop The fair Manchin critique is why didn’t he state his views about this more clearly during the ARP process when he could have had a much more constructive impact. — PolitiTweet.org

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Congratulations to this article for using the concept of "moral panic" correctly. https://t.co/xRFQxZ8fvy — PolitiTweet.org

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@jon_m_rob The aliens are high in latent SES — PolitiTweet.org

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Unfortunately, the question of how to ease refinery capacity constraints seems genuinely very hard — yet difficult to fully recover from the pandemic without regaining refining capacity. But if you have good ideas let me know and I will write about it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Legislative achievements are rarely rewarded by the voters but for the White House there’s upside to getting IRA done in that scoring a huge substantive win on climate let’s then focus on short-term energy prices rather than placating environmentalists. — PolitiTweet.org

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For my part, I'm actually pretty skeptical of media-centric theories here. Gasoline prices are highly salient and seem to impact public sentiment very directly. https://t.co/LMKAPTwRUZ — PolitiTweet.org

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My favorite genre of news coverage is speculation about whether or not political events will alter the tenor of news coverage. https://t.co/kvLaD1mNeZ — PolitiTweet.org

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The most straightforward explanation is that aliens are real and they come visit the Planet Earth in order to help Republicans win elections. https://t.co/7o6OY1RPxW — PolitiTweet.org

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Back in 2019, I wrote about lefty activists' efforts to anathematize Biden's climate agenda over the fact that he had a labor-friendly version of a green new deal including support for — you guessed it — nuclear, hydrogen, and CCS. https://t.co/vQ5uvbpY99 https://t.co/YbcKJ476vj — PolitiTweet.org

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I can’t tell you what the future evolution of technology will be, but when labor & industry groups say over and over and over again that inclusion of hydrogen, nuclear, and CCS on the menu is key to their ongoing political support please listen to them. This is how things happen. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just in time for this thread — when you hear from the hydrogen haters keep in mind that listening to them would have scuttled the most important climate legislation in history. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alon_levy @Noahpinion Don't yell at me, yell at Noah! — PolitiTweet.org

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I think it would be smart in the future to pay less attention to those people and more attention to the kinds of industries and groups that are capable of making arguments that are relevant to the marginal members of congress. — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a group of people who are more interested in owning the domestic fossil fuel industry than in reducing emissions, and they were ready to throw in the towel early and go for broke on an absurd plan to de-bank the fossil fuel industry through executive action. — PolitiTweet.org

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Once you know what to look for, I'm sure you'll find other accounts that reflect the continued engaged of the hydrogen/nuclear/CCS sectors in this process. The problem is environmentalists don't like those technologies so they couldn't see it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Some asshole with a Substack wrote a Bloomberg column arguing that Joe Manchin needed to re-engage lest he jeopardize the future of hydrogen, nuclear, and CCS. https://t.co/hbv5LmDbQi https://t.co/Np8y1xWuR4 — PolitiTweet.org

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Jesse Jenkins did this great thread on July 21 specifically noting that Manchin was jeopardizing funding for hydrogen, nuclear, and CCS. https://t.co/DLS7nXZpKk — PolitiTweet.org

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One idea that has emerged since the IRA breakthrough is that nobody saw it coming. I think it's worth pushing back on that a little. You see in Politico there was immediate engagement with Manchin about hydrogen, nuclear, and CCS in West Virginia. https://t.co/GOxmzdaS0X https://t.co/LnQ42MCu4U — PolitiTweet.org

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@Noahpinion The problem is if you say nice things about Singapore, then @alon_levy will yell at you. — PolitiTweet.org

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"One study found that 85 percent of CEQA lawsuits were filed by groups with no history of environmental advocacy." https://t.co/quAEsXIKtB — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the big thing Peter Thiel gets right with Palantir and his protege Palmer Luckey followed with Anduril — military companies should have interesting names. But we shouldn't let LOTR dorks monopolize this field. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AliceFromQueens @DanTypo And PBS. — PolitiTweet.org

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Military-industrial complex needs to reckon with the fact that among all this consolidation we have only one cool company name (Raytheon). https://t.co/SBAmB0EU7B https://t.co/ztsEKN1bYI — PolitiTweet.org

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Not a recession if it doesn't last two quarters. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SPeitsch The point is that the crumbs he was willing to give the left were specifically the climate change crumbs. — PolitiTweet.org

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The other candidate who did well relative to the fundamentals while losing was, of course, John McCain who was remarkably popular the day Obama beat him. But because they both lost, the value of this sort of candidate gets obscured. — PolitiTweet.org

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Kerry outperformed the economic fundamentals and did so with an electoral coalition that was extremely well-optimized for the electoral college. Nobody believes it but the war hero turned veteran moderate senator was one of the best presidential candidates of our time. — PolitiTweet.org

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There were a lot of ups and downs to this process, but there was never a moment in time when Manchin's position was "sure let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars on expanded child care programs but fuck clean energy." The all-about-coal theory never made sense. — PolitiTweet.org

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The theory that Manchin was: (a) Negotiating in bad faith all along (b) Because of his corrupt personal ties to the coal industry Was both very widely discussed both on twitter and in the press, it was totally wrong, and it would be interesting to see some reflection. — PolitiTweet.org